This qualitative study explored the mother's experiences of parenting a child with Down's syndrome. The research approach used in this study was Phenomenology. Interviews were conducted with seven mothers who had a child with Down syndrome. The study was conducted at selected special schools at Mangalore. From the Analysis of the data six major themes were emerged. Non acceptance – Birth of an ...

materials and methods sixty mothers of children with adhd who referred to psychiatric outpatient clinic of ahvaz golestan hospital were selected by convenience sampling method. the parenting attitude, general health, and demographic data questionnaires were used. results forty two (70%) mothers were healthy and 18 (30%) were unhealthy. the pierson coefficient and the fisher’s exact test showed ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the breastfeeding and introduction of solid foods among children with Down's syndrome. Mothers of 225 children attending three institutes providing education for children with Down's syndrome were asked to complete a questionnaire. Data were collected on knowledge of feeding procedure, pattern of feeding, and introduction of solid food. Although 66.7% of ...

background and objective: the present study investigated executive functions in students with high functioning autism (hfa) and students with educable down syndrome (ds) with normal healthy students.     methods: fifteen boy students with hfa, 15 boy students with educable intellectual disability and 15 normal healthy boy students (aged between¬ 7-15 years) were recruited from educational servi...

BACKGROUND We have previously demonstrated a relationship between children born with Down syndrome and maternal telomere length. Similarly, exposure to tobacco and oral contraceptives has been explored in one of our earlier studies as a risk factor for Down syndrome. OBJECTIVE In the present study, we consider the interactions among these risk factors associated with Down syndrome in a popula...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of congenital heart defects in patients with Down syndrome in the municipality of Pelotas, Brazil, describing the most frequent types and assessing the associated factors. METHODS Cross-sectional study including children with Down syndrome who were born and lived in Pelotas from January 2000 to December 2005. Data were collected by means of home interview...

objectives: stigma is a negative value. many behaviors are to ward stigmatized people. down syndrome is one of conditions with stigma. the aim of this study is to determine the sources of labeling in iranian down syndrome. methods: the view of 105 down syndrome families concerning stigma were conducted. all of down syndrome was under 50 years. results: a fair proportion of down syndrome familie...